Secretive Kenyan billionaires you might not know about

Reclusive city billionaire Mike Maina was nowhere near the recent demolition of residential houses in Kayole Nairobi where he was claiming more than 20 acres of land.

Maina, the owner of Marble Arch hotel off Tom Mboya Street and Pelican Signs, is so private, no photo of him was in the public domain. When former Roads minister Franklin Bett condemned Maina’s eight-bedroom home valued at over Sh100 million in Spring Valley, Nairobi for being on a road reserve and earmarked it for demolition in 2010, the businessman did not appear in public to protest as is normally the case.